2025 Nantucket Real Estate Market Overview
Nantucket’s 2025 market began at a measured pace and strengthened steadily as the year progressed, finishing with meaningful gains in both activity and total dollar volume. By year’s end, total dollar volume ranked as the third best on record, underscoring the depth of demand and the market’s ability to reward exceptional properties. Seasonality played its usual role, with momentum building into late summer and fall as buyers responded quickly to homes that were well prepared, well positioned, and priced with intention.

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Happy holidays! Nantucket real estate stayed strong in 2025, and it’s on track to finish as the third-best year on record by total sales volume (with an outside chance of sneaking into second if December closes exceptionally strong).

The end of September marked the close of another quarter that outpaced last year’s performance. Continued high demand fueled nearly a 40% increase in the number of sold properties in Q3, even as inventory levels declined.

Labor Day on Nantucket always feels a little bittersweet. It marks the close of another beautiful summer, yet the island still offers a few more weeks of warm beach days with lighter traffic, quieter restaurants, and a little more room to breathe.

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With summer in full swing and the year already at its halfway point, it's a great time to reflect on a strong first and second quarter. Both periods outperformed last year in terms of transactions and total dollar volume, even as average and median home prices have decreased. While it's encouraging to look back, we're also entering one of the most exciting times of the year, with exceptional properties hitting the market and motivated buyers actively pursuing their dream Nantucket homes.

The Nantucket real estate market showed strong performance in April, continuing a promising trend for the year. Compared to April of the previous year, the number of properties sold surged by 63%, dollar volume more than doubled with a 109% increase, the average sold price rose by 28%, and the median sold price grew by 15%. The sustained high demand has been matched with more new listings, properties returning to the market, and fewer homes being removed from the market. Despite these year-over-year changes, the inventory at the end of the month remained nearly the same.